Data tables, 2016 Census

Mother Tongue (269), Knowledge of Official Languages (5) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas, 2016 Census - 100% Data The letter C inside a yellow triangle - correction

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This table details mother tongue , knowledge of official languages and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Thunder Bay, CY
Data quality
Mother tongue (269) Knowledge of official languages (5)
Total - Knowledge of official languages English only French only English and French Neither English nor French
Total - Mother tongueFootnote 1 106,180 97,350 95 8,295 445
Single responses 104,710 96,185 90 7,995 445
Official languages 92,545 84,855 85 7,585 15
English 90,135 84,605 5 5,505 20
French 2,410 245 85 2,080 0
Non-official languages 12,165 11,330 5 410 425
Aboriginal languages 1,195 1,145 0 20 25
Algonquian languages 1,185 1,140 0 20 25
Blackfoot 0 0 0 0 0
Cree-Montagnais languages 95 85 0 5 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0 0
Montagnais (Innu) 0 0 0 0 0
Moose Cree 5 10 0 0 0
Naskapi 0 0 0 0 0
Northern East Cree 5 0 0 0 0
Plains Cree 5 5 0 0 0
Southern East Cree 0 0 0 0 0
Swampy Cree 25 25 0 0 0
Woods Cree 5 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 50 50 0 0 0
Eastern Algonquian languages 5 5 0 0 0
Malecite 0 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0 0
Ojibway-Potawatomi languages 1,090 1,045 0 15 20
Algonquin 0 5 0 0 0
Ojibway 680 650 0 15 10
Oji-Cree 405 390 0 0 15
Ottawa (Odawa) 5 5 0 0 0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Athabaskan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Babine (Wetsuwet'en) 0 0 0 0 0
Beaver 0 0 0 0 0
Carrier 0 0 0 0 0
Chilcotin 0 0 0 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0 0
Dogrib (Tlicho) 0 0 0 0 0
Gwich'in 0 0 0 0 0
Sarsi (Sarcee) 0 0 0 0 0
Sekani 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey-Hare languages 0 0 0 0 0
North Slavey (Hare) 0 0 0 0 0
South Slavey 0 0 0 0 0
Slavey, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Kaska (Nahani) 0 0 0 0 0
Tahltan 0 0 0 0 0
Tutchone languages 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Southern Tutchone 0 0 0 0 0
Athabaskan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Haida 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages 0 0 0 0 0
Inuinnaqtun (Inuvialuktun) 0 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0 0
Inuit languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0 0
Mohawk 0 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0 0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Kutenai 0 0 0 0 0
Michif 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages 0 0 0 0 0
Comox 0 0 0 0 0
Halkomelem 0 0 0 0 0
Lillooet 0 0 0 0 0
Okanagan 0 0 0 0 0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) 0 0 0 0 0
Squamish 0 0 0 0 0
Straits 0 0 0 0 0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux) 0 0 0 0 0
Salish languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Dakota 0 0 0 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0 0
Siouan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tlingit 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Gitxsan (Gitksan) 0 0 0 0 0
Nisga'a 0 0 0 0 0
Tsimshian 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages 0 0 0 0 0
Haisla 0 0 0 0 0
Heiltsuk 0 0 0 0 0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala) 0 0 0 0 0
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) 0 0 0 0 0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Aboriginal languages, n.o.s. 5 5 0 0 0
Non-Aboriginal languages 10,975 10,185 0 385 400
Afro-Asiatic languages 280 235 0 30 20
Berber languages 5 0 0 0 0
Kabyle 5 0 0 0 0
Berber languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages 0 5 0 0 0
Bilen 0 0 0 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0 0
Somali 5 0 0 0 0
Cushitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages 270 230 0 20 15
Amharic 5 10 0 0 0
Arabic 255 215 0 25 20
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5 5 0 0 0
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 0 0 0 0 0
Harari 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages 125 125 0 0 5
Khmer (Cambodian) 5 5 0 0 0
Vietnamese 125 120 0 0 0
Austro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages 240 230 0 5 5
Bikol 0 0 0 0 0
Cebuano 15 10 0 0 0
Fijian 0 0 0 0 0
Hiligaynon 0 0 0 0 0
Ilocano 10 5 0 0 0
Malagasy 0 0 0 0 0
Malay 15 10 0 5 0
Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) 0 0 0 0 0
Pangasinan 0 0 0 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 195 190 0 0 0
Waray-Waray 0 0 0 0 0
Austronesian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Creole languages 15 15 0 5 0
Haitian Creole 0 0 0 0 0
Creole, n.o.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Creole languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages 165 165 0 0 0
Kannada 5 10 0 0 0
Malayalam 115 115 0 0 0
Tamil 35 30 0 0 0
Telugu 15 10 0 0 0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Hmong-Mien languages 0 0 0 0 0
Indo-European languages 7,320 6,810 0 275 235
Albanian 5 5 0 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0 0
Balto-Slavic languages 2,125 2,010 0 75 40
Baltic languages 20 20 0 0 0
Latvian 15 10 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 10 0 0 0
Slavic languages 2,110 1,990 0 75 45
Belarusan 0 0 0 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0 0
Croatian 265 260 0 5 5
Czech 35 40 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 5 0 0 0
Polish 830 785 0 25 25
Russian 95 80 0 10 0
Serbian 35 30 0 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 10 10 0 0 0
Slovak 150 140 0 5 5
Slovene (Slovenian) 75 70 0 5 0
Ukrainian 580 550 0 20 5
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0 0
Celtic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Scottish Gaelic 5 5 0 0 0
Welsh 5 5 0 0 0
Celtic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages 900 850 0 45 0
Afrikaans 15 15 0 0 0
Danish 45 45 0 0 0
Dutch 205 195 0 5 0
Frisian 5 0 0 0 0
German 580 545 0 35 0
Icelandic 0 5 0 0 0
Norwegian 10 10 0 0 0
Swedish 40 35 0 0 0
Vlaams (Flemish) 5 5 0 5 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0 0
Germanic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Greek 125 125 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages 585 540 0 25 20
Indo-Aryan languages 470 435 0 20 15
Bengali 70 65 0 5 0
Gujarati 90 85 0 0 0
Hindi 100 90 0 5 5
Kashmiri 5 0 0 0 0
Konkani 0 0 0 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 5 0
Nepali 25 25 0 0 0
Oriya (Odia) 0 0 0 0 0
Punjabi (Panjabi) 75 65 0 10 5
Sindhi 0 5 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 10 0 0 0
Urdu 95 90 0 0 0
Iranian languages 115 105 0 5 5
Kurdish 0 5 0 0 0
Pashto 5 5 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 110 100 0 5 5
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Italic (Romance) languages 3,565 3,270 0 130 170
Catalan 0 0 0 0 0
Italian 2,815 2,590 0 80 135
Portuguese 385 360 0 5 20
Romanian 40 35 0 5 5
Spanish 320 275 0 35 10
Italic (Romance) languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 5 0
Japanese 30 30 0 0 0
Kartvelian languages 0 0 0 0 0
Georgian 0 0 0 0 0
Korean 85 75 0 5 5
Mongolic languages 5 5 0 0 0
Mongolian 5 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages 55 45 0 10 0
Akan (Twi) 20 20 0 5 0
Bamanankan 0 0 0 0 0
Edo 0 0 0 0 0
Ewe 0 0 0 0 0
Fulah (Pular, Pulaar, Fulfulde) 0 0 0 0 0
Ga 0 5 0 0 0
Ganda 0 0 0 0 0
Igbo 5 5 0 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 5 0 0 0 0
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) 0 0 0 0 0
Shona 0 5 0 0 0
Swahili 0 0 0 0 0
Wolof 0 0 0 0 0
Yoruba 5 5 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 15 10 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages 10 10 0 0 0
Dinka 0 5 0 0 0
Nilo-Saharan languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Sign languages 35 25 0 0 10
American Sign Language 25 20 0 0 5
Quebec Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e 10 5 0 0 5
Sino-Tibetan languages 775 690 0 15 80
Chinese languages 535 480 0 10 45
Cantonese 175 150 0 0 25
Hakka 5 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 315 280 0 5 25
Min Dong 0 0 0 0 0
Min Nan (Chaochow, Teochow, Fukien, Taiwanese) 20 15 0 0 0
Wu (Shanghainese) 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 30 30 0 5 0
Chinese languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages 240 205 0 0 35
Burmese 25 25 0 0 0
Karenic languages 205 180 0 0 30
Tibetan 0 0 0 0 0
Tibeto-Burman languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages 20 20 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0 0
Thai 20 15 0 0 0
Tai-Kadai languages, n.i.e 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages 10 10 0 0 0
Azerbaijani 0 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 5 0
Uyghur 0 0 0 0 0
Uzbek 0 0 0 0 0
Turkic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Uralic languages 1,790 1,700 0 50 45
Estonian 30 25 0 0 0
Finnish 1,635 1,555 0 40 45
Hungarian 125 120 0 10 0
Uralic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0 0
Other languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0 5
Multiple responses 1,470 1,165 0 300 0
English and French 295 70 0 225 0
English and non-official language 1,125 1,075 0 45 0
French and non-official language 25 10 0 15 0
English, French and non-official language 25 10 0 15 0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

n.i.e. = not included elsewhere
n.o.s. = not otherwise specified

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Data quality note(s) – Thunder Bay, CY

  • Incomplete enumeration flag
    Default. Not applicable.
  • Short-form data quality flag
    Global non-response rate (GNR), short-form census questionnaire: 4.2%.
  • Short-form income data quality flag
    Default. Data quality index showing a short-form income non-response rate lower than 10%.

Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X2016055.

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